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Self-sufficiency is the state of not requiring any aid, support, or interaction, for survival; it is therefore a type of personal or collective autonomy. The term self-sufficiency is usually applied to varieties of sustainable living in which nothing is consumed outside of what is produced by the self-sufficient individuals. Examples of attempts at self-sufficiency include simple living, homesteading, off-the-grid, survivalism, DIY ethic and the back-to-the-land movement. Practices that enable or aid self-sufficiency include autonomous building, permaculture, sustainable agriculture, and renewable energy. The term is also applied to limited forms of self-sufficiency, for example growing one's own food or becoming economically independent of state subsidies. Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sufficiency
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TOPIC: Myth: World running out of Oil

Myth: World running out of Oil 14 Sep 2016 10:03 #21

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oil is a FINITE resource, it was laid down millions of years ago and when it has all been used up there is no more.
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Myth: World running out of Oil 14 Sep 2016 21:47 #22

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It's amazing that we're getting to the point of knowing how much is left and still continuing to use it at this rate... (not that I'm unguilty.)
I guess future generations will just have to learn to live without it and live with the consequences of what we've done with it.
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Myth: World running out of Oil 15 Sep 2016 08:06 #23

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there could be other sorts of fuels in the future, electric and hydrogen are probably the most obvious, but these wont come to anything whilst we still have big oil companies controlling governments.
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Myth: World running out of Oil 15 Sep 2016 09:40 #24

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I agree there'll be "something else", lonewolf - maybe there already is. But we'll have to be backs-to-the-wall desperate before it's looked for. People don't change from the known easily.

Personally, I think things could "run on fresh air", seeing as fresh air contains all the particles of creation in existence and that's all anything is comprised of and runs on! But we're a long way from getting to understand how to use that and, as you say: Governments. While we have governments we'll never seek out knowledge as individuals the way people did in the past. We'll just sit waiting to be told what to do or not do next.
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If he undaunted be....". (Beowulf)....
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Myth: World running out of Oil 15 Sep 2016 10:55 #25

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mind you, I've never come across an American who didn't think oil would last forever, seeing as how their the most prolific user of the stuff I cant say i'm surprised.
something about "pride comes before a fall" or something similar?
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Myth: World running out of Oil 17 Sep 2016 00:33 #26

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Yes the fact that 'economies' are largely based around oil certainly doesn't help.
No oil - no delivery of goods as it is, and all the other knock on effects it would have. Everything would fall apart very quickly.

What rational society would allow itself to suck so hard on such a dwindling teet?
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Myth: World running out of Oil 17 Sep 2016 08:33 #27

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something to do with "normalcy bias", they expect life to carry on as normal and nothing will happen to upset their cosy little lives, so they don't prepare for even the slightest little crisis or emergency, then get taken completely by surprise when it happens.
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